Shirt.



H. SALTZMAN.

SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1911.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

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ATTORNEYS HARRY SALTZMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

Application filed September 27, 1911. Serial No. 651,553.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY SALTZMAN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Shirt, of whichthe following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in shirts provided with aplurality of flaps or lapels attached to the body of the shirt adjacentthe waist line thereof, to enable the shirt to be attached to thetrousers and support the latter, thus enabling the wearer to dispensewith the use of suspenders ordinarily employed for this purpose. Theshirt is made strong throughout so that it will not readily be torn whenin use.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which the same characters of reference indicatethe same parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvedshirt; and Fig. 2 is adetail view, showing in enlarged form the flap and the buttonholestherein by means of which the flap is buttoned to the waistband of thetrousers of the wearer.

My improved shirt comprises a number of pieces of cloth suitablystitched together to form the body of the shirt.

The numeral 1 indicates one of these pieces, which, when in position,will fit across the wearers shoulders. This piece or strip is cut out atthe center to fit the neckband 2, and is attached at its ends to thesleeves 3. The back of the shirt is sewed transversely to the shoulderstrip 1 and to the sleeves and front of the shirt along its side edges.

The front of the shirt is made in several sections which are indicatedby the numerals 4 and 5. The sections 4 are sewed to the back of theshirt and to the front edges of the ends of the sleeves along theirouter edges, and are secured along their inner edges to the centersections 5. The adjacent upper corners of these center sections are asscut away, as shown, so as to be fitted to the forward part of theneckband 2; and the adjacent longitudinal edges of these two centersections 5 overlap each other and are provided with buttons andbuttonholes so that they can be fastened together. The front sections 4and 5 are all of equal length and are secured along the lower edges to aflap 6, as shown in Fig. 1.

All of the seams uniting the sections of cloth which form the body ofthe shirt together are covered with strips 7 and these covering stripsnot only give the shirt a finished appearance by concealing the roughedges of the cloth along the seams inside of the shirt, but they alsostrengthen the seams and make it almost impossible to tear them apart.

The flaps or lapels bymeans of which the trousers are supported aredisclosed at 8; they are preferably four in number, secured in the seamsadjacent the lower outer corners of the sections 4., and to the seamsadjacent the lower inner corners of these sections. In this way the twoouter flaps are secured to the front flap 6, sections 1 and back of theshirt by means of a single seam; and the two intermediate flaps aresecured to the sections 1 and 5 and the lower flap 6 by a single seamlikewise. Each of the lapels or flaps 8 is made up of a double layer ofcloth and provided with a plurality of buttonholes therein, shown at 9.These buttonholes are corded before-being sewed, so as to make themresist a considerable force before tearing.

The utility of the shirt will be apparentfrom the appearance thereof.Nearly all makes of trousers in common use are now provided with a pairof buttons in front on each side to attach the suspenders to the same. Iutilize these two pairs of buttons to attach the flaps 8 thereto, andthe height at which the trousers are to be supported canvbe adjusted atwill by buttoning them to the lower buttonholes 9, to the intermediatebuttonholes or the upper buttonholes. The buttonholes will not beexposed when the shirt is attached to them, and the shirt will fit welland comfortably, the bending of the body in any position will not beprevented, and no inconvenience will at any time be experienced by thewearer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

An improvement in shirts, comprising a body, the front of said bodyincluding a number of longitudinally-arranged parallel sections of clothwhich are sewed together along their adjacent edges, the outer edges ofthe outermost of said sections being sewed to the back of the shirt, atfront flab for said shirt secured to the said sections along the loweredges, and a plurality of supporting flaps or lapels secured to saidshirt, each of said flaps or lapels having one of its longitudinal edgessewed into a seam joining two adjacent parallel sections and having itslower edge sewed into the seam joining the front flap to said parallelsections, each of said flaps having a vertical row of buttonholestherein to support the 10 trousers of the wearer in adjusted position.In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' HARRY SALTZMAN. Witnesses:

WILLIAM F. NICKEL. JOHN P. DAVIS.

